Photographica vol. 11 titled "Blinded by the light: Flashes and Revelations" is out! It was great to edit it with Eliane de Larminat. Stellar contributions! Open access here: journals.openedition.org/photographic.... Launch: Vevey, Camera Museum, Nov 20, 6.30PM

Venez nombreux @labnf.bsky.social le 30 septembre pour la JE sur la révolution irlandaise au prisme de la presse française! @meshs.bsky.social, @univlille.bsky.social, @cecille-ulille.bsky.social, @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Inscriptions ⬇️ www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la...

A Vevey pour le vernissage de notre exposition "Flash! Petite histoire de la photographie allumée" sous un grand soleil. A voir au musée de l'appareil photographique jusqu'en février www.cameramuseum.ch/evenement/fl...

Rhomaillessa Talhaoui, a great MA student I was happy to supervise for her work on early photographs of Hijaz, was granted a fellowship at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Congrats to her! www.mediaoffice.abudhabi/en/arts-cult...

Strange echoes of catastrophic post WW1 experiments in 2025. Recently remembered this 1916 map by the infamous Mark Sykes who literally located "region like parts (...) of the Riviera, fit for European colonization" in the Ottoman Empire. Imperial imagination is all about endless recycling

Good news for the new academic year ! I’ve been promoted to Professor of Irish History @flcs-ulille.bsky.social and an event funded by the @meshs.bsky.social that I’m organising @labnf.bsky.social is coming soon ! www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la...

‘Rethinking Histories of Military Atrocity, Ethnic Violence and Photography, from the Aceh War to the Indonesian National Revolution’ - ✍️📷 New research of mine, open access with @anupress.bsky.social 👇 press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr... #indonesia #netherlands #colonialism #warphotography

Between Kneecap and Fontaines DC performances, thoroughly enjoying Rock en Seine this evening!

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

📸"Flash! Petite histoire de la photo allumée" ( curated by P. Martin, E. de Larminat and yours truly) will open on Sept 9 at the Musée de l'appareil photographique in Vevey! A collab with Photographica: n.11 (on Flash obv) will be launched at the museum on Nov.20 www.cameramuseum.ch/evenement/fl...

📸L'expo "Flash! Petite histoire de la photo allumée" (commissariat: P. Martin, E. de Larminat et D. Foliard) ouvrira le 18/09 au musée de l'appareil photographique de Vevey! En collab avec Photographica: le n.11 (Aveugler pour voir) sera lancé au musée le 20/11 www.cameramuseum.ch/evenement/fl...

"impasse de la photographie", cool postcard found par John Erik Hansson

J'adhère totalement www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Une lecture importante "Infinite licence" d' @omerbartov.bsky.social "The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met" www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Petit rappel: la journée "Réactiver les images" avec (notamment) Elizabeth Edwards, Edhem Eldem, @susieprotschky.bsky.social , @kimatiwagner.bsky.social, @[email protected] c'est lundi à l'INHA. Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles invisu.cnrs.fr/2025/04/09/1...

Great to welcome Kim as invited professor at Université Paris Cité!

Avec l'ami Julien Schuh, on parle demain sur France Culture avec @xaviermauduit.bsky.social‬ (merci pour l'invitation!) de photographie, de pixels, d'archives synthétiques et de passés contestés. C'est à 9h dans le cours de l'Histoire: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Non loin de la Sixtine, sur l'un des plafonds des galeries vaticanes, naissance d'une nouvelle image au milieu des autres arts: un appareil photographique porté par un angelot

Salle des rêves dans l'incroyable palais Farnese de Caprarola.

19/05. Save the date! In Visu Workshop (INHA, Paris) "Reactivating images / Réactiver les images" with/avec E. Edwards, E. Bertho, E. Eldem, S. Protschky, P. Geimer, S. Colard, K. Wagner. invisu.cnrs.fr/2025/04/09/1...

Last day of the amazing "Encoding the Image" conference at TMU/Image Centre in Toronto under the snow! theimagecentre.ca/symposium/im...

Getting started at the Image Center in Toronto for three great days about Encoding the Image: How does AI affect the Future of Photo History? More info here: theimagecentre.ca/symposium/im...

Une lecture recommandée: le dernier livre d'Omar El Akkad.

Look what I just bought for my lab @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social: pristine stereoscope loaded with views of the 1867 Paris universal exhibition! Part of a project with the EM+ lab (EPFL). Here a view of the American section when the US gov (a long time ago) was trying to make friends with Europe.

Heureux d'annoncer la publication (14/03) de Passés contestés et présents numériques (Le Bord de l'Eau) avec J. Schuh pour la coll. UDPN dirigée par M. Beugnet et B. Bohet. On y explore la digitalisation des traces photographiques des histoires meurtries. On l'a voulu très accessible. Bonne lecture!

Looking forward to participating in this great event organised by Thierry Gervais at the Image Centre Toronto (March 31-April 2) theimagecentre.ca/symposium/im...

The High Vision ANR project is now live (highvision.hypotheses.org). It is an interdisciplinary project (history/archives/computer vision) that seeks to explore little-document photo collections of very early news image agencies. We are hiring a postdoc, check it out emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

It was great working with you, all the authors and the History of Photography team. We made it!

Rare early views of Hawaii (1860s, probably/mostly H. Chase studio) from Charles de Varigny's own albums (in private hands with his diaries). De Varigny befriended King Kamehameha V and became Hawaii's Minister for Foreign Affairs (1865). Hopelessly hoping for enough research time to work on it...

Another release from the History of Photography special issue co-edited with Sean Willcock. Pierre Schill's take on the global circulations of photos of the Shar al-Shatt massacre (Oct. 1911, Tripoli). A timely piece on wars of images in colonial contexts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great contribution to the forthcoming special issue of the HoP journal on grievous images. Looking forward to the full release (shortly), including a reflexive QandA with the authors (Pierre Schill, Susie Protschky, Nancy Rushorora, Alexander Fattal and Andrés Caicedo Sierra, and Elissa Mailänder).

If you are interested in the history of photography and do not know about Photographica, you should! Last issue on decentered histories of early photo with great authors (Olubukola Gbadegesin, Ece Zerman and many others). Free access here: journals.openedition.org/photographica/

Le projet HighVision qui vise à numériser et exploiter de vastes fonds d'archives d'agences de presse pionnières commence en jan. 2025. Appliquant les ressources de la vision automatique, il porte notamment sur le riche fonds Forbin: scanr.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/projects/ANR...

Rdv le 20 novembre pour une séance autour du travail de Léonel Noubou Nouwone sur les usages de la photographie lors de la guerre de décolonisation du Cameroun. Inscriptions: forms.gle/GjuzhL1m3owT....

Cheers to Susan E. Cook, Simon Dell and Nancy Rushohora for their careful reviews of my book The Violence of Colonial Photography. My thanks to Global Nineteenth-Century Studies for the opportunity to participate in this great forum doi.org/10.3828/gncs...

I have been working on a research project on the 1867 universal exhibition for a while: this geeky feeling when you know you've accidentally found a precious relic hidden somewhere in the Hotel de Soubise in Paris. Hope to be able to show them in an exhibition...

C'est parti pour une délégation CNRS (laboratoire In Visu/INHA). Très heureux de rejoindre cette belle équipe pour quelques mois avec de beaux projets en vue. More soon!

Check out the full programme of the upcoming conference on history of photography and Flash (Paris, Oct. 17-18 2024) on our website: flashsrevelations.weebly.com/conference-p.... Amazing line up! You can register here: flashsrevelations.weebly.com/registration....

In more ways than one, photography was physically born of the Mediterranean. Sardinian silver in the hands of Niépce when he first thought about heliography in Cagliari in 1797-1798. Bitumen of Judea when he took the "Point de vue du Gras" in the mid 1820s...

Beautiful installation by Hawaf Collective at the Palais de Tokyo. A museum in the clouds above Gaza. One of the artists, Mohammad Sami Qreqe’,was killed by the IDF in the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City in Oct 2023 at 24.

Encore quelques semaines pour nous envoyer vos propositions en vue de la conférence sur le Flash que nous organisons en octobre prochain à la BNF (sfp.asso.fr/index.php/ph...). Keynote par saradominici.bsky.social et un débat de clôture organisé par Audrey Sands. Save the date!

A reminder that you can still send us your proposals (in French or English) for our upcoming conference on Flash photography (sfp.asso.fr/index.php/ph...) to be held in Paris this October. With keynote by saradominici.bsky.social and a panel organized by Audrey Sands. Looking forward to this!

Journée d'études "Guerre et dessin" à l'Université de Grenoble ce mercredi 20 mars. Organisée par Sylvain Venayre. J'y parlerai du panorama de la prise de Tananarive réalisé par L. Tinayre pour l'expo de 1900. Passez nous voir!

Amazing time at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale/ Napoli with great students. Took time to visit St Thomas Aquinas's cell where he wrote some of the 8.5 million written words he squeezed out of his brain in his lifetime. Vaguely hoping that gazing at his humerus will help me finish my next article.

Reflecting on the potential colourisation of stereoviews of the 1867 Paris exhibition since DeOldify and other solutions hallucinate colours (collodion loves UV+blue, but red not so much). Here is a tinted stereoview published at the time. Food for thought on authenticity (+ on how to scan those!)

We are hiring! Senior lecturer position at my lab (larca.u-paris.fr/en/home/). History of Science/History of Knowledge. Full profile in French , Eng version coming up soon. Here is a general description of the hiring process (www.afse.fr/global/gene/...). DM me if you have questions.

My lab (LARCA, Uni. Paris Cité) is organizing a conference on Flash photography, next Oct. in Paris (BNF Richelieu) with Photographica. CfP at larca.u-paris.fr/en/news/cfp-...). Keynote by saradominici.bsky.social. Check it out!

Check out Photographica's CfP on photography's 200th anniversary! Questioning the medium's invention and its commemorations/ narratives of innovation. Eng version in pdf here:https://www.asso-h2c.fr/2023/10/19/aac-cfp-photographica-n-10-bientot-200-ans-soon-to-be-200-years-old-1er-decembre-2023/

Consider joining this event at the British Academy on the occasion of its 2023 Book Prize if you happen to be in London on Oct. 30. Still can't believe my book is on the shortlist. See you there @kimatiwagner.bsky.social !